They fell in love when she was a high school senior and he was a midshipman at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

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"He handed me the check and said, 'I want my boat now, ' and we couldn't do it, " says Carroll, a former U.S. Naval Academy midshipman who grew up crewing for wealthy yacht owners in nearby Newport.

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